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A teenager who was shot by police this past weekend was wanted on a charge of assaulting his
ex-girlfriend, whose mother had called officers when he showed up at their house.

Dabron T. White, 17, had active delinquency warrants for assault and criminal damaging in
connection with the 16-year-old girl, and he was the subject of a protection order out of the same
incident.

More than two months ago, the girl told Franklin County Juvenile Court, in her petition for a
protection order, that she and White had argued after he accused her of talking to another boy on
Sept. 30. He then punched her left eye and threw her phone on the ground, she said.

White avoided arrest until just before 7 Saturday night, when police say he showed up at the
girl’s home on Stirlingshire Court on the Northeast Side. Her mother called police, telling a
dispatcher that White and a woman were trying to get into the house.

When the dispatcher asked whether he had a gun, she responded, “He’s waving something.”

White was gone by the time officers arrived, but police later saw his car and followed him. At
McCutcheon and Stygler roads in Gahanna, a woman either jumped from the car or was pushed out,
Columbus police said.

The woman, a member of White’s family, has not cooperated with police, said police spokesman
Sgt. Rich Weiner.

White ditched his car in the parking lot of New Life Church, 3690 N. Stygler Rd., and ran,
police said. Officers chased him for about a quarter-mile through backyards into a ravine near Olde
Ridenour Road and Stonegate Circle, Weiner said.

White was taken to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center, Weiner said. Yesterday, police said he was
in stable condition but wouldn’t give further details.

A handgun was found after the shooting, but Weiner would not say where.

White has not been charged in Saturday’s incident, but was arrested on the outstanding assault
and criminal-damaging charges. In addition, 10 cases have been filed against him in juvenile court
since 2008 — most of them assault charges.

When White was 14, he was found with a loaded handgun in his waistband. He later admitted to a
charge of attempted carrying of a concealed weapon and was put on probation.

But after several probation violations stemming from issues with his Children Services placement
— including going AWOL for four months in 2011 — he was sentenced to the Department of Youth
Services’ custody for at least a year in February 2012. It is unclear when he was released.